Dragnea Group

Members

Pictured (L-R) back: Benny Howard

Middle 1: Will Thompshon | Bogdan Dragnea | Xiang Ma | Li He

Middle 2: Cheng Zeng | Caitlyn Calhoun | Andrey Malyutin | Virgnina Smith

Front: Lu Dai | Eun-Sohl Kohn | Irina Tsvetkova | Aditi Dabir

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Principal Investigator

	Bogdan Dragnea Ph.D.	Profile
	Associate Professor of Chemistry Adjunct Professor of Physics Phone: 812-856-0087 Fax: 812-855-8300	Department of Chemistry 800 E. Kirkwood Ave. Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405

Secretary

Tricia P. Miles

Office: C231

Phone: 812-855-5050

Fax: 812-855-8300

Research Scientist

Irina Tsvetkova

Postdoc

Research Interest:

1) Study of fundamentals of templated virus-like particle assembly. 2) Understanding a virus-host interaction by following a single virus with fluorescence microscopy durin ginfection process.

Graduate Students

	Lu Dai	Materials Chemistry
	Research Interest: Simulation of VNP assembly through self assembly of Janus type particles.

	Cheng Zeng	Physical Chemistry
	Research Interest: Understanding of viral assembly through construction of phase diagrams for viruses and VNPs.

	Caitlyn Calhoun	Materials Chemistry
	Research Interest: Investigation of physical properties of BMV via AFM and TIRF

	Aditi Dabir	Physical Chemistry
	Research Interest: Study of RNA release mechanism from single viruses with high temporal resolution using Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy.

	Li He	Biochemistry
	Research Interest: Developing novel tracking agents at nanoscale based on the virus-like particles (VLP) of Hepatitis B Virus.

	Eun-Sohl Koh	Physical Chemistry
	Research Interest: 1) Study of optically induced interaction in dense metal nanoparticle suspensions. 2) Photothermal heterodyne imaging for in-vivo and in-vitro tracking and trafficking of VLP.

	Xiang Ma	Biochemistry
	Research Interest: Utilizing AFM to understand: (1) mechanical properties of virus capsids, (2) adhesive response of a biological material (holdfast) and (3) conformational change of MukB and its relationship with DNA condensation.

	Andrey Malyutin	Materials Chemistry
	Research Interest: Synthesis, encapsulation and characterization of Virus-like particles with magnetic cores.

	Virginia Marie Smith	Biochemistry
	Research Interest: Understanding the transformational RNA release from self-assembled viral cages, in particular, Brome Mosaic Virus (BMV) using Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy (TIRFM).